Radio Oasis

Radio Oasis sits in the tail of Madagascar's 10 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

With three recorded opens, Radio Oasis sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Madagascar's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Two stations in Madagascar lead with the tag christian, and Radio Oasis is one of them. That is a small enough group to hear end to end, and the tags are the broadcasters' own words rather than a classification imposed here.

Radio Oasis streams at 96 kbps, under Madagascar's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

The stream is served from hopefy.fanantenanahoanao.org, an address one other entry in Madagascar uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.